Two Years in the Jungle: The Experiences of a Hunter and a Naturalist in India, Ceylon, the Malay Peninsula and Borneo
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1887. Large Octavo. Item #031807
Frontispiece, 512 pages, with large folding map at end of volume of British India and a folding map of Borneo with many interesting photographic images. Valuable not only for his accounts correcting previous measurements in the Mammals of India but valuable ethnographic accounts of the people, the condition of the population of India under British control. Many important photographs. A very good copy bound in gold cloth lettered in black, spine lettering gilt and decorated in black, some light finger soiling, wear to spine ends, a bit of bubbling to cloth on rear board. Previous owner's gift inscription in pencil.
Price: $125.00